Word: waiver
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...second husband Orson Welles), and Yasmin, 3 (by third husband Aly Khan). Then came some rapid-fire news: Rita and her crooning suitor, Dick Haymes, signed a pact safeguarding her money for her own use. Dick's third wife, Nora, divorced him in California and signed a waiver agreeing to his Nevada divorce. Haymes and Hayworth announced that their wedding would finally come off this week...
Third Rule Waiver...
...housecleaning. The brewery case, Williams continued, covered years when Nunan was boss of the BIR. Ex-BIR officials are forbidden by law to act in such cases, he said, but "it appears that this section of the law has not been strictly enforced." Nunan got around it through a waiver from the Treasury Department; Williams produced a photostat copy...
Barbed Hook. President Phil Murray of the steelworkers was the first to make a ceremonial waiver of responsibility in the complex processes of settlement. He announced that 650,000 steelworkers will quit working after their contract expires on New Year's Eve. Then to make sure that he was shorn of any obligation in the crisis, he got his policy committee to strip him of his powers to call off a strike until a 2,500-delegate convention meets in Atlantic City-three days after the strike deadline. Thus, an aging Ulysses in perilous waters, he had himself bound...
Just what suggestions are you after, Mr. Jordan? Abolition of eligibility rules, so that an athlete's usefulness to his alma mater will not terminate with his graduation or expulsion? Or perhaps an October 15 trading deadline? Or waiver provisions to prevent bigger conferences from raiding the top players from lesser leagues until other teams in that league have had a chance to bid for their services...